Stage 3 : March 12, 2019 Cepoy - Moulins/Yzeure 200 km
1 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 5.16.25
2 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal
3 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-QuickStep
4 Daniel McLay (GBr) EF Education First
5 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels
6 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Direct Energie
7 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
8 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
9 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
10 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+24 Niccolo Bonifazio
+19 Ion Izagirre Insausti
+19 Hector Carretero
+18 Kris Boeckmans
+17 Alexander Kristoff
+16 Christoph Pfingsten
+15 Laurens De Vreese
+14 Victor de la Parte
+14 Pierre-Luc Perichon
+13 Jens Debusschere
Biggest losers by position :
-52 Quentin Pacher
-28 Patrick Muller
-26 Jhonatan Manuel Narvaez Prado
-26 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-24 Simon Yates
-20 Magnus Cort
-20 Niki Terpstra
-17 Jesper Hansen
-15 Benoit Cosnefroy
-14 Sven Erik Bystrom
-13 Alessandro De Marchi
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Sam Bennett
+0:06 Michal Kwiatkowski
+0:06 Caleb Ewan
+0:04 Fabio Jakobsen
+0:02 Luis Leon Sanchez
+0:02 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez
+0:01 Tony Gallopin
+0:01 Felix GroAŸschartner
Biggest losers by time :
-6:55 Quentin Pacher
-2:47 Alessandro De Marchi
-2:47 Amael Moinard
-2:47 Benoit Cosnefroy
-2:47 Domenico Pozzovivo
-2:47 Jhonatan Manuel Narvaez Prado
-2:47 Jonathan Hivert
-2:47 Julien Bernard
-2:47 Laurens ten Dam
-2:47 Maarten Wynants
-2:47 Magnus Cort
Favourites by position :
+19 Ion Izagirre Insausti
+4 Patrick Konrad
+3 Wilco Kelderman
+3 Nairo Quintana
+2 George Bennett
-1 Ilnur Zakarin
-9 Domenico Pozzovivo
-10 Simon Spilak
-11 Miguel Angel Lopez
-12 Marc Soler
-24 Simon Yates
Favourites by time :
+0:06 Michal Kwiatkowski
-2:47 Simon Yates
-2:47 Simon Spilak
-2:47 Miguel Angel Lopez
-2:47 Marc Soler
-2:47 Domenico Pozzovivo
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Dylan Groenewegen 11:47:44 (unchanged)
2 Michal Kwiatkowski 0:06 (was 2nd at 0:12)
3 Luis Leon Sanchez 0:11 (was 3rd at 0:13)
4 Philippe Gilbert 0:16 (unchanged)
5 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez 0:17 (was 5th at 0:19)
6 Matteo Trentin 0:20 (unchanged)
7 Tony Gallopin 0:21 (was 7th at 0:22)
8 Rudy Molard 0:23 (unchanged)
9 Romain Bardet 0:23 (unchanged)
10 Oliver Naesen 0:24 (unchanged)
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20 Nairo Quintana 0:25 (was 23rd at 0:25)
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22 Wilco Kelderman 0:25 (was 25th at 0:25)
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26 George Bennett 0:25 (was 28th at 0:25)
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28 Ilnur Zakarin 0:25 (was 27th at 0:25)
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36 Patrick Konrad 1:25 (was 40th at 1:25)
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95 Simon Yates 9:51 (was 71st at 7:04)
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113 Ion Izagirre Insausti 11:29 (was 132nd at 11:29)
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125 Marc Soler 12:34 (was 113rd at 9:47)
126 Miguel Angel Lopez 12:34 (was 115th at 9:47)
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131 Simon Spilak 14:16 (was 121st at 11:29)
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135 Domenico Pozzovivo 14:16 (was 126th at 11:29)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Dylan Groenewegen 32 (was 1st with 30 points)
2 Caleb Ewan 24 (was 6th with 12 points)
3 Sam Bennett 22 (was 10th with 7 points)
4 Michal Kwiatkowski 20 (was 2nd with 14 points)
5 Fabio Jakobsen 18 (was 8th with 9 points)
6 Luis Leon Sanchez 14 (was 3rd with 12 points)
7 Matteo Trentin 12 (was 4th with 12 points)
8 Ivan Garcia Cortina 12 (was 5th with 12 points)
9 Arnaud Demare 10 (was 9th with 7 points)
10 Philippe Gilbert 9 (was 7th with 9 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Damien Gaudin 12 (unchanged)
2 Florian Senechal 4 (unchanged)
3 Ivan Garcia Cortina 2 (unchanged)
4 Evaldas Siskevicius 2 (unchanged)
5 Alessandro De Marchi 2 (unchanged)
6 Romain Combaud 2 (unchanged)
7 Michael Schwarzmann 1 (unchanged)
8 Amael Moinard 1 (unchanged)
9 Nicolas Edet 1 (unchanged)
10 Bob Jungels -1 (unchanged)
Retirements to date : Stage
Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 3 <<<
Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 3 <<<
Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 2
Louis Meintjes (RSA) Dimension Data 2
Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 2
Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First 2
Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 2
Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1
Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb 1
Maxime Daniel (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 1
Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 1
Total retirements : 11